The Window on America Center in Lutsk is designed to provide up-to-date information on the United States. The mission of our center is to promote mutual understanding between the United States and Ukraine. The Center accomplish this by: providing information about U.S. history, government, society, culture and other spheres of life in American society.Here you can also get information about training and gaining qualifications in American schools by foreigners...

Friday, June 22, 2012

The U.S.-Ukraine
Foundation, a member of the U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy (USCCD), helped
launch a pilot project, a series of monthly discussions between Americans and
Ukrainians via the Window on America Centers in Lutsk, in cooperation with the
U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Kyiv and USCCD.

In the framework of that
pilot project on June 21, 2012at 10:00 am (DC
time) - 5:00 pm (Ukraine time) the discussion with Lutsk Window on America
Center was held and it covered the topic of Intercultural Education.

The format of discussion
was a Skype video conference call: 40 minutes speaker's presentation, and
40 minutes - Q&A. The working
language was Ukrainian.

There were invited two speakers on the topic of Intercultural Education:

Elvira Kizilova and Lyudmyla Melnyk.

Elvira Kizilova worked on
her Masters’ in Public Administration at the University of Arkansas and headed
the Department for Foreign Cooperation and Image Policy which was responsible
for international relations and promotion of the Crimean tourism overseas.

Lyudmyla Melnyk worked
as a cross cultural technical facilitator for the U.S. Peace Corps in Ukraine
(TEFL and youth development) in 2010-2011.
She has served as a facilitator, coordinator, and an interpreter in a
variety of cultural programs both within Ukraine and abroad (USUF, Sister-City,
Open World, CDC).

9 people - teachers from
local schools and Volyn National University, librarians gathered at the Window
on America Center in Lutsk to talk over the topic of different
cultures, mainly Ukrainian and American. The speakers made the
informative presentation of the main concepts of Cultures.

The next part of the Skype
discussion was dedicated to the question of Education that was of great
interest among the present teachers.

We believe every person can
make a positive change to society and received knowledge on Intercultural
Education will help the Ukrainian people to understand American way of life,
its culture.

Monday, June 18, 2012

On June 17, 201215 Movie Club Members gathered at the Window on America Center to have interesting and lovely talk based on a movie«Muppets» (2011), comedy and family by genre.

The Movie and Speaking Clubs (discussion after the movie) was led by America Peace Corps Volunteers Melissa Krut and Dominic Huether. It was the last Movie that Melissa led at the Center and to say

goodbye to the America Friend came 15 people.

Two and a half years ago our city had honour to meet Melissa Krut with a concrete mission - to promote world peace and friendship. During these years she worked hard teaching students of VolynNationalUniversity, working with English language teachers, etc. Also she was a part of Summer Camp ACT project that provided a chance for Ukrainian pupils to practice English, explore creativity and develop new skills in leadership, teamwork, and healthy lifestyles.

It is surprising but Melissa found time to come to the WOA Room in Lutsk every Sunday and to organize different informative events for whose people who wanted to get knowledge about the United States of America.

Time flies and Melissa’s time of work in Ukraine came to the end. So the farewell party that was organized at the Center on that day was a small but thoughtful gesture that let Melissa know how important she was to Ukrainian people and Ukraine in general.

Thank you, Melissa, for your great help! We will miss you a lot! We’ll be glad to meet you in Ukraine again)!

Sunday, June 17, 2012

This camp will be held in early July in Shatsk and will provide a chance for Ukrainian pupils looking for a summer experience to practice English, explore creativity and develop new skills in leadership, teamwork, and healthy lifestyles.

The CampACT staff made up of half Ukrainians and half American Peace Corps Volunteers, will give all participants a truly special international experience.

Monday, June 11, 2012

Regular Movie Club that took place at the Window on AmericaCenter in Lutsk on June 10th gathered 13 people who had great chance to watch movie «Best in Show».

Melissa Krut, the American Peace Corps Volunteer in Lutsk, led the related speaking discussion session after the movie. The present audience had a great chance to practice their English with native speaker.

The film was shown in English and included subtitles.

The Movie Club members spent great time talking about and debating the quality of acting, characters, script, directing and music.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Lutsk Window on AmericaCentergathered about 50 pupils of Gadyach gymnasium. The aim of the meeting was to learn more about the United States of America using the resources of the Center.

During the excursion the pupils learned about the WOACenter that provides accurate and current information about the United States of America. They were proposed to get brief but informative fragments of events with American and Ukrainian guests that were organized in the Center.

The excursion showed that the pupils were interested in the WOACenter materials and resources, mainly books and CDs on subjects ranging from history to culture to politics and films on DVD discs.

Hope that our Center will help the pupils to make progress in English language learning using many types of reference materials that one can find at the Window in AmericaCenter in Lutsk. And, as always, enjoy your English learning and use up to date information!

«John Cheever- a Novelist of Manners» was the theme of book exhibition that gathered more than 60 people at the Window on AmericaCenter in Lutsk.

During the period of time from May 27 till May 30, 2012 the visitors of the center could get more information about the American novelist and short story writer, called the "Chekhov of the suburbs".

The exhibition was of great interest among the visitors especially his early works.Besides the audience could come and use modern technologies that the WOA center provided to read his works in electronic version.